Slavery Quilt

KUNA -- A Kuna teen's project may benefit a local museum.

Bryanna Reimers told the story of American slavery with a quilt. Now she wants to donate the piece to the Idaho Black History Museum.

The quilt -- completed two years ago -- traces the history of slavery in America.

Reimers said she found pictures depicting different aspects of slavery, from slave ships to punishment and the underground railroad. She printed the pictures "backwards" onto iron-on transfers, which she used for squares on the quilt.

Maxine Robertson, Reimers' grandmother, said making a quilt was a particularly appropriate way to tell the story of slavery.

"They used quilts on the underground railroad," Robertson said. "A quilt hanging on the fence or on the clothesline told (escaped) slaves if it was safe and which way to go. It was the pattern in the quilt."

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